Greetings from the great Southwest. We’re on vacation but I had a few odd and ends to pass along this week including the anniversary of the si…
Richard Kyte and Scott Rada also discuss why more young men are not attending college and whether students should be allowed to take mental he…
Opinion: If you are sick of the corrosive nature of our political discourse, make your gratitude visible.
Although I believe in women's rights, I never want to see the mother's role in the home degraded. One National Organization for Women (NOW) me…
When Julian Pleasants died September 7 North Carolina lost one of its most important academic and popular historians.
Social scientists Dr. Alison Dagnes and Dr. Lawrence Eppard are joined by Amy Fried and Douglas Harris to discuss their book, "At War with Gov…
When Patrick Dowdell said goodbye to his father on Sept. 9, 2001, he had no idea it would be the last time he would ever see his dad.
Scott Rada, Lee Enterprises social media manager, and Richard Kyte, director of the Ethics Institute at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis.,…
Is there anything worse than government overregulation of beer-related cartoon nudity?
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
For 40 years Robert Woodson has offered help in rebuilding low-income communities plagued by crime, unemployment, drug abuse and hopelessness,…
Can we first just say how bizarre it is?
The 20th Anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 give us cause to remember. You’ll find special content in today’s paper. We remember. We…
About this time in the legislative session - when the session runs interminably long and little is happening - the press corps, lobbyists, leg…
I can’t remember when I first heard the song, “Do You Really Care?” for the first time but the questions being asked in the song is certainly …
Why? Why? Why?
RALEIGH — According to the most-recent ranking I can find, North Carolina requires state-approved licenses in more occupations (nearly 200) th…
social scientists, Dr. Alison Dagnes and Dr. Lawrence Eppard are joined by Chad Stone and Emily Guendelsberger to discuss the plight of Americ…
I watched through the living room window as a neighborhood kid, his bicycle slightly too big for his stature, paused at the 2-foot, rock-walle…
By any measure Jimmy Morrison lived an extraordinary life. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he returned home to Concord and, over five decades, b…
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Jefferson Finis Davis was born in 1808 and died in 1889. Davis served, as a Democrat, in the U.S. Senate the House of Representatives. From 18…
Tomorrow they’re coming. 4 o’clock is the updated time of arrival; it was 7 o’clock previously and the time moving forward makes everything fe…
“And He carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven…
If you sat in a dentist chair, you would think it was crazy if the receptionist barged in to say, “Good morning. We’re still trying to hire a …
On the last day of my sabbatical, I sat in a carrel in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, staring at a handwritten note inside the cov…
Our other pandemic? It's guns, and the deaths and injuries they bring. It's our very own U.S. pandemic, in the news every day, and increasing …
We live in interesting times. A global pandemic rages on. Businesses can’t find workers, with some limiting hours, closing some days. Other bu…
